Russell Brand thinks the UK riots are “sad and frightening”.

MARGARET HICKEY (Letters, August 1) operates a diligent and vigilant perspective in her comparative dissection of the child abuse revelations of the past recent years.

When it comes to parish pump politics, nobody in Laois-Offaly can lay a glove on Charlie Flanagan.

ANTI-WAR protesters are plotting to trespass at Shannon Airport, occupy a runway and blockade American air craft carrying troops to Iraq.

WHEN people look back at the passage of yesterday’s Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006, they will see that it was passed in the Dáil unanimously, without opposition or abstentions.

FOR sheer entertainment, the recent Fine Gael Árd Fheis was hard to beat.

HUMAN rights campaigners yesterday paid tribute to Amnesty International founder Peter Benenson, who has died aged 83.

THE Gandhi political dynasty prepared for a return to power yesterday after it was handed a stunning victory in India’s elections.

A scene from the 1939 classic Gone with the Wind has been voted the best epic movie moment of all time.